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NAB to divest MLC

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
NAB plans to exit the majority of its wealth management operations, including divestment of Australia's largest retail MySuper product. While the bank will continue to service high-net-worth clients via JBWere, it is shedding the rest of its wealth ...

CBA enters APRA EU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
APRA has accepted an Enforceable Undertaking from Commonwealth Bank, having determined the bank's operational risk management framework "worked better on paper than in practice." Releasing the final report of its prudential inquiry into CBA, the regulator ...

Financial services giants launch ESG indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
Two global financial services heavyweights have collaborated to launch a suite of environmental, social and governance (ESG) indices for institutional investors. J.P. Morgan and BlackRock have joined forces to create the J.P. Morgan ESG Index (JESG) ...

RC suggests separating platforms and advice licensees

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
One of the key points made by Senior Counsel Assisting Rowena Orr at the end of the financial advice Royal Commission was that vertical integration of advice licensees and platform providers carries systemic risk. Orr said that licensees using approved ...

ASX gives timeline for CHESS replacement

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
The Australian Securities Exchange has given an arrival date for its much-anticipated trade clearing and settlement system that will replace the older CHESS system. The new distributed ledger technology (DLT) will start clearing trades for the ASX about ...

Kina expands IRESS relationship

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
A Papua New Guinean bank and wealth management firm is expanding the implementation of an IRESS fund administration platform. Kina Securities, a $4.3 billion fund administrator, will use IRESS' Acurity Online platform to allow its 700,000 PNG members ...

Water risk infiltrates agriculture portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
Water risk is becoming a threat to Australia's $56 billion agriculture industry, forcing producers to modify practices and compelling investors to find new means to de-risk portfolios. Institutional investors' growing interest in agribusiness is a boon ...

Brenner leaves AMP

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
Catherine Brenner has resigned as chair of AMP and stepped down from the board. A senior executive is also departing and the firm has cleared itself of any wrongdoing over the preparation of a Clayton Utz report. In the wake of the Royal Commission's ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 6- 9)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
In a workweek cut short by a public holiday, the Royal Commission heard evidence which included an AMP adviser identified only as Mr E, whose clients haven't even been informed of his misconduct yet. It also included a high-profile adviser who "most ...

Advisers react to Royal Commission revelations

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
Financial advisers are struggling to comprehend the level of misconduct revealed by the past fortnight's Royal Commission hearings. Will the non-aligned advice space be strengthened by the findings? Or will the vertically integrated model withstand ...